User:Figaro/extra page

Comment to 'Shawn of Montreal'
I am allowed to delete content from my own talk page (please see comment above about this).

Please do not continue to pester me. It is 3.15 a.m. Monday morning here and I need to get some sleep. I know that it is daytime where you live.

I do not intend to continue my correspondence with you. I have also now put the matter into the hands of an Administrator. Figaro (talk) 17:17, 17 April 2011 (UTC)


 * I have closed this discussion on CfD to the title which you suggested. I just want to let you know that if you hadn't blanked the category, and hadn't deleted Shawn in Montreal's comments, you still would have gotten what you wanted. So knowing that, please also know that I was tempted to declare the nomination null and void because of your apparent actions, and only did not do so because I believed restarting the nomination would have ended us up in the same place anyhow. I can't guarantee that'll be the result next time, and so if you decide to skip over CfD protocol in the future, it could well end up in a place you wouldn't want it to. I'd ask you to exercise restraint when something makes it to CfD. Simply waiting until an admin like me has a chance to close it is better than gaining a reputation for not respecting what other editors think. Thanks for listening.--Mike Selinker (talk) 09:35, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

To anybody interested in reading this

In my defence, I have reproduced, below, the comments I made to another Administrator about what happened and the reason why I acted the way I did (a way in which I went against my nature).


 * I am sorry for worrying you, but I am having a problem with Shawn in Montreal who is continuing to make personal comments about me in the section for Category:Doctor in the House - and TV sequels on the Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2011_April_16 page. His comments are as follows:


 * Note that this CfD and the tag on the category page was blanked by creator User:Figaro. I have rolled back both edits and posted a comment on his Talk page. I have not issued a warning out of respect for the fact that he appears to be an experienced editor, but will if this continues. Shawn in Montreal 14:33, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
 * My comment above was blanked as well by category creator Figaro. I have restored it. Shawn in Montreal 16:00, 17 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Unwisely, I deleted the section for Category:Doctor in the House - and TV sequels (which I should obviously have left on the page), because I intended to retify the situation by merging two category pages into one (which I have now done).


 * I apologise and regret having removed the content, but, unfortunately, I can't undo what I did. Ever since then, Shawn in Montreal has been trying to shame me on the Categories_for_discussion/Log/2011_April_16 page.  Because of Shawn in Montreal's stated threats to me, on the page (in a public forum), and although the naming of editors, by another editor, is considered personal abuse and is strictly against Wikipedia policy, I have decided to leave his comments on the page and ignore them (I removed his comments twice, but he just continues to reinstate them, with added remarks about me each time).  I have also tried to reason with Shawn in Montreal on his 'talk page', but evidently to no avail, and have therefore decided not to continue my correspondence with him.  I have also removed his remarks to me from my own 'talk page'.


 * Would it be possible, please, for you to intervene in this matter. I would very much appreciate it.  Thank you.  All the best.  Figaro (talk) 17:01, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

An added explanation


 * As I commented to the Administrator, on 17 April, I regret what I did in removing the section in the Categories for discussion page - but I am unable to undo what was done. What prompted me to act hastily, and in a totally uncharacteristic manner, was discovering that the proposer had made the unnecessary suggestion of renaming the category Category:Doctor in the House - and TV sequels to the entirely inappropriate name of I don't know (which I found offensive).  If this inappropriate suggestion had not been made, then I would not have acted in the way I did (a way, I should comment, which is entirely against my principles and totally against my nature). I would have let the discussion 'run its course' in the usual way.  My actions and error in judgement, in both removing the section, and the ensuing comments about me in the section by Shawn in Montreal, is something I do not intend to ever do again.  I regret and apologise for what I did.  Far from being an editor who does not respect what other editors think, I actually do care.


 * I should point out that Shawn in Montreal warned me various times (both on his own talk page and on my talk page, as well as on the the Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 April 16 page. He warned that he would request to have me blocked from editing Wikipedia if I removed his comments about me from the Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 April 16 page.


 * I would like to comment here that the reason why I had removed Shawn in Montreal's comments about me from the Category:Doctor in the House - and TV sequels' section of the Categories for discussion/Log/2011 April 16 page was because they were against Wikipedia policy (please see No personal attacks page).


 * I am upset that a small error of judgement on my part should have such a catastrophic result, with my reputation now apparently being at risk (if this is so, then it would appear that the shaming tactic in naming me in a public forum, by Shawn in Montreal, has worked). Figaro (talk) 21:14, 25 April 2011 (UTC)